LastFm

This library provides some a Ruby interface to interact with the LastFM API. For the time being you can only get data from LastFm.

First of all I would like to thank (gordonbisnor) for his Rails plugin on which I started building. I started writing this library as I was not satisfied with existing Ruby clients for LastFm. This project is far from being complete and it is not well tested but works quite well for my current project. The reason for writing this library is that most of the existing clients were not Rubyish enough and were tightly attached to Rails. In order to start using this library be sure you have a LastFm API api and secret key.

Installation

Gem install

sudo gem install lastfm

Then in your code require it as

require 'last_fm'

Example

Load your configuration

LastFm.load_configuration(your_api_key, your_secret+key)

Get information for an artist

artist = LastFm::Artist.new('Pink Floyd')

See the attributes for the artist object

artist.methods

Get an album of this artist

artist.album('The Wall')

Get a track of this artist

a.track('High Hopes')

Get an album

LastFm::Album.new('Bonobo','Animal Magic')

LastFm::Album.search('Bonobo','Animal Magic')

LastFm::Artist.search('Bonobo').album('Animal Magic')

Get a track

LastFm::Track.new('Bonobo','Silver')

LastFm::Track.search('Bonobo','Silver')

LastFm::Track.search('Bonobo').album('Silver')

Get user information

LastFm::User.new('p3010010').top_albums

Dependencies

The only requirement is ActiveSupport

Notes

LastFm gem was developed in a hurry and is not a full blown LastFm client neither extensively tested. Feel free to fork it :)

License (The MIT License)

Copyright © 2009 Panagiotis Papadopoulos.

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